You are getting a lot of empty receive requests when using Amazon SQS. This is making a lot of unnecessary network load on your instances. What can you do to reduce this load? A) Subscribe your queue to an SNS topic instead. B) Use as long of a poll as possible, instead of short polls. C) Alter your visibility timeout to be shorter. D) Use sqsd on your EC2 instances. Use sqsd on your EC2 instances.

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Using long polling reduces the number of empty responses by waiting for messages to arrive, thus reducing unnecessary network load.

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